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It is customary in Ireland, when any person of that description appears during meal times, to make him wait until the meal is over, after which he is supplied with the fragments. No sooner had the boccagh as a certain class of beggars is termed advanced past the jamb, than he was desired to sit until the dinner should be concluded.
In these instances the persons inferior in numbers suffered such barbarities, as it would be painful to detail. "There lived a short distance out of the town a man nicknamed Jemsy Boccagh, on account of his lameness he was also sometimes called 'Hop-an'-go-constant, who fell the first victim to party spirit.
Among them might be noticed the blind, the lame, the paralytic, and such as were afflicted with various other diseases; nor were those good men and their wives who had no offspring to be omitted. The mendicant, the pilgrim, the boccagh, together with every other description of impostors, remarkable for attending such places, were the first on the ground, all busy in their respective vocations.
Boccagh ran across a field, in order to get before them in the road, and was in the act of climbing a ditch, when one of them, who carried a spade-shaft, struck him a blow on the head, which put an end to his existence.* * Fact.
The person who killed him escaped to America where he got himself naturalized, and when the British government claimed him, he pleaded his privilege of being an American citizen, and he was consequently not given up. Boccagh was a very violent Orangeman, and a very offensive one.
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